New Book of Comics #2

This comic has no indicia or any other information to indicate its official publisher or date. It was most likely published by Nicholson Publishing Co., Inc., which has been publishing More Fun Comics and New Comics for the past year and a quarter, starting approximately with the issues reprinted herein. However, the "Spring 1938" publication date arguably aligns with the March-April and May 1938 cover-dated issues published by A.I. Menin, rec. Nicholson Publishing Co., Inc. while Nicholson Pub. Co., Inc. was in bankruptcy. The relationship between the publication of this issue and the bankruptcy proceedings and purchase of Nicholson's titles by Detective Comics, Inc. is unclear.

The book consists of reprints of the outermost wraps of More Fun Comics #v2#3 [15] and #v2#4 (16) (with the latter nested inside the former), followed by the outermost wraps of New Comics #v1#11.

This is *not* a rebinding, as some ads have been changed, the "It's a Dern Lie" feature on the final page of New Comics #v1#11 has been moved and replaced by an ad, and a feature from New Fun #v2#3 [15] appears in the middle of the #v2#4 (16) section.

The inside front and back covers of this issue are completely blank, and the cover is made of a stiffer tagboard than the usual cover stock.

Also, at the border between those two issues is a wrap with outer pages from #v2#3 [15] and inner pages from #v2#4 (16), clear proof that the originally printed signatures were not just rebound. Oddly, the inner break in the New Comics #v1#11 quire does not line up with the feature boundary, splicing a page off of each of the adjacent features.